History
Founded in 1803 and originally situated in London, the school moved in 1922 to a site in Slough on Brunel Way (previously called Station Approach), adjacent to Slough Railway Station, where it remained until it sold the land to Tesco in the late 1980s, moving to its current home at Ascot.
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